Description

This C/PBL resource is designed to help students discover what organic chemicals are present in the waste water which is produced during the processing of oil sands, and analytically assess these potentially toxic organic chemicals.

This C/PBL resource is designed to help students discover what organic chemicals are present in the waste water which is produced during the processing of oil sands, and analytically assess these potentially toxic organic chemicals.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Students are asked to investigate what properties the chemcials might have, to attempt to draw them using computer packages and to use these drawings to calculate their likely toxicities using modern chemical sciences methods and computer models. The students will also have an opportunity to interpret spectral, chromatographic and other analytical data.